A Seperate Peace Author:John Knowles Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual, Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for almost a decade-one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over ... more »the tortured world of adolescence.« less